The children have been working hard to develop their vocabulary during spooky writing lessons. Today, they presented their stories to the rest of the class.
WWII Solo Talks
This week, the children have been presenting their amazing WWII solo talks. Each child has further researched an aspect of the war which they find interesting. So far we have had brilliant presentations about Aircraft, Kindertransport, Adolf Hilter, The Holocaust and many, many more. I look forward to hearing and providing feedback for the other children in the class early next week. 🌟🌟🌟
K’nex Structures
The children have been finalising their K’nex structures, ready to create these after the October break. Well done, P7.26! 🌟
The Designers
The children have been using K’nex to build their structures and experimenting with different resources such as clay and balsa wood.
The Designers – Pitching for Resources
The children have been presenting their initial ideas and pitching for the resources they would like to use. These ideas will now be evaluated and reviewed.
The Designers – Mearns Masters
Today we were joined by Mr Derek Hill, who is the course director of Architectural Studies at Strathclyde University. Mr Hill joined us to launch our new Mearns Masters programme – The Designers. This session started with a PowerPoint all about Architect. We then focussed on our drawing techniques with various fun drawing tasks. This included us drawing with two pens and with our eyes closed. We finished today’s session by starting our very own ‘Invisible Cities’ pictures, inspired by our class book. I have attached some pictures below 🌟🌟.
Our Google Classroom Charters and Staying Safe Online ✅
Our Google Classroom Charters have been completed digitally this year and are now up in our classroom on our ICT wall, alongside some top tips on how to stay safe online.
Inner/Outer Art 🎨🎨
Today the children started their inner and outer self portraits. The children were asked to draw one half as a true representation of themselves and how they look. The other half of the portrait had to represent who they are inside. This could include their hobbies, favourite food, feelings, qualities, etc.
Pictures taken by the lovely Aliha 💛
Christmas tree problem solving
What a fabulous morning! We started off getting into the shape of a star as our first challenge. After lots of discussion we managed it brilliantly. Mrs Kelly said she wished that she had a drone to show us just how great our shape looked! The photos below don’t really show it as well as we would like.
Our next challenge was to create a stand alone Christmas tree. We went through the design process and experienced a variety of success as we worked through planning, design, manufacture, modification and evaluation. One thing for sure is that we were are fully focused and involved in our team.
Outdoor problem solving
What a marvellous day of learning. We packed in so much today and had a great time with lots of laughing and fun too. We started off walking towards a beautiful view of the sun rising above the trees and arranged ourselves into a hexagon exceptionally quickly – our organisational skills as a class are really developing well. 👍
Next we moved on to solving our first problem of the day which involved creating a hexagon by placing two equilateral triangles on top of each other. We were then challenged to work out the size of the angles inside the hexagon given that all the little triangles on the outside were also equilateral.
After we spent time in groups trying to solve this and then learned how to calculate them together as a class, we set our own different challenges to show our understanding of supplementary angles. This is a very tricky concept and requires a lot of problem solving so we are all really proud of what we learned today and how we are growing in confidence discussing angles. Click on the links below to hear some of the questions we created.
After break time we moved on to a new challenge also involving triangles but this time investigating and working together to discover the minimum number of moves to invert a triangle. Here are some photos of us doing just that.
